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How did Saul Hudson become Slash? And where did the name Meat Loaf come from? Test your knowledge of musical nicknames with this rockin' quiz!
Don't pass him by: Drummer/songwriter Ringo Starr played a vital role in the Beatles' success. What's his birthname?
Robert Spriwell
Richard Starkey
Ricky Smith
Fill in the blank: Marvin Lee Aday of Dallas, Texas later found fame and fortune as __________.
Flea
Axl Rose
Meat Loaf
Stevie Wonder's stage name used to be longer. What was he called originally?
Little Stevie Wonder
Big Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder-Fingertips
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The name "Alice Cooper" was allegedly borrowed from which of the following people?
a gothic horror novelist
a seventeenth-century witch
an old girlfriend
Why did Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. change his name to John Denver?
He was born in Denver.
He loved the Rocky Mountains.
He hated his birth name so he threw a dart at a map and that was where it landed.
Guitarist Saul "Slash" Hudson says his nickname was coined by which of these actors?
Seymour Cassel
Rick Baker
Val Kilmer
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David Bowie stopped using his real name (at least, professionally) because he didn't want to be confused with ______.
David Crosby
Davy Jones (of the Monkees)
Dave Matthews
What nickname did Pat Benatar give her husband and longtime musical partner, Neil Giraldo?
"Harpoon"
"Spyder"
"Gopher"
A founding member of Queen, singer Farrokh Bulsara was better known as Freddie Mercury. Where'd that name come from?
He borrowed it from Roman mythology.
It's a reference to one of his own song lyrics.
No one really knows.
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